Should I start Dylan Sampson or Dameon Pierce in Week 7?

Where the draft room stands

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dylan Sampson, and the board ranks him 176th overall on the rest of his evidence.

Live drafts hold no current pick on Dameon Pierce, and the board ranks him 186th overall on the rest of his evidence.

The market-based projections

The market-based projection for Dylan Sampson is 1.9 PPR points a game off 1 market across 3 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

The market-based projection for Dameon Pierce is 1.3 PPR points a game off 1 market across 13 market sources. That is 30 percent of what a running back's projection needs, so it is a fragment of one rather than a projection.

Dylan Sampson's projection is not complete, so the two figures are not set against each other here.

This season through Week 6

The usage feed holds no snap or target counts for Dylan Sampson this season.

Through Week 6, Dameon Pierce has been on the field for 87 percent of PHI snaps, taken 74 percent of the carries, drawn 12 percent of the targets and had 43 percent of the red zone chances.

He has taken 2 of the offence's 25 third down targets, had 2 of its 4 chances inside the five and seen 0 of its 5 two minute targets.

His 10 targets have come 0.4 yards behind the line of scrimmage on average.

In Week 5 against JAX he carried 11 times for 14 yards, caught 2 of 5 targets for -2 yards and did not score.

In Week 6 against CAR he carried 12 times for 35 yards, caught 4 of 5 targets for 15 yards and scored 1 touchdown.

Their 2025 seasons

In 2025 Dylan Sampson played 15 games and scored 87.6 PPR points, 5.8 a game, finishing RB55.

He carried 65 times for 175 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 33 of 40 targets for 271 more yards.

That came to 4.3 carries a game at 2.7 yards a carry and 2.2 catches a game.

He was on the field for 25 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

In 2025 Dameon Pierce played 5 games and scored 3.6 PPR points, 0.7 a game, finishing RB128.

He carried 14 times for 36 yards and 0 touchdowns, and caught 0 of 1 target for 0 more yards.

That came to 2.8 carries a game at 2.6 yards a carry.

He was on the field for 8 percent of the snaps in the games he played.

Dylan Sampson was available for 10 games more.

Head to head

In 2025 Dylan Sampson scored 5.8 PPR points a game and Dameon Pierce 0.7, 5.1 a game between them.

Dylan Sampson finished RB55 that year and Dameon Pierce RB128.

Dylan Sampson had 51 more carries than Dameon Pierce, 65 to 14.

Dylan Sampson had 33 more catches than Dameon Pierce, 33 to 0.

Byes and availability

Dylan Sampson is off in Week 11 and Dameon Pierce in Week 10, so either can cover the other's bye.

Dylan Sampson is listed as ir on the injury report.